We are pleased to welcome in our group two new PhD students

We are pleased to welcome in our group two additional PhD students, who won a scholarship from the

George A. Olah Doctoral School of Chemistry and Chemical Technology:

Rita Márton (bioengineer M.Sc., BME VBK) and Molnár Szabina (environmental engineer M.Sc., BME VBK).

Rita Márton’s PhD research topic is: studying and influencing quorum sensing in fungi.

Szabina Molnár’s PhD research topic is: the effect of biochar ageing on biochar properties and on its applicability in soil.

We wish much success to their research activity!

Zsófia Berkl, our PhD student received the Best Lecture Award at FIBOK2020 on 19th November 2020

We are pleased to inform you that Zsófia Berkl, our PhD student, was awarded the Best Lecture Award (1^st Prize) within the MICROBIAL AND BIOMASS BIOTECHNOLOGY section of The 4th National Conference of Young Biotechnologists „FIBOK 2020” for her lecture on  the 19th of November 2020:

CYCLODEXTRIN-MEDIATED QUORUM QUENCHING IN ALIIVIBRIO FISCHERI MODEL SYSTEM

Authors: BERKL Zsófia¹ – MOLNÁR Mónika ¹ – FENYVESI Éva ² – NÉMETH Imre ¹ – BUDA Kata ¹ – FEKETE-KERTÉSZ Ildikó ¹ – MÁRTON Rita ¹ – SZENTE Lajos²

¹ BME-VBK ABÉT, Budapest

² CycloLab Kft., Budapest

Congratulations Zsófi for your continuous success!

The first ELECTRA newsletter was published

We are pleased to present  the first issue of the ELECTRA project newsletter.

ELECTRA is a flagship project of the EU-China Cooperation Initiative.  It is a 4-year Research and Innovation Action. Our research team from BME is consortium partner of the ELECTRA project .  The consortium consists of 16 European partners receiving funding from the European Union H2020 programme, and 5 Chinese partners being funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

The project aims to develop and implement  bioelectrochemical systems for the bioremediation of contaminated wastewater, groundwater, sediments and soil.

The first newsletter presents the first set of four technologies as well as a brief summary of an impressive number of communication and dissemination activities performed within this first 18 months of the project.

We participated with three abstracts at the ERES 2020 Virtual Conference

Between 3-6 October, 2020 we participated at the ERES 2020 Virtual Conference, (http://eres2020.eres-conference.eu/ ) organised by the SCALE and the secREEts projects and sponsored by Mytileneos and MEAB.

This was the 3rd Conference on European Rare Earth Resources originally planned to be held in Delphi, Greece.

However, due to the ongoing COVID19 crisis, the organizing committee of the ERES 2020 conference has decided to move the conference to a virtual venue.

Our group participated with three abstracts, presented in one lecture by Viktoria Feigl.

The below listed abstracts can be viewed also in the list of abstracts: http://eres2020.eres-conference.eu/index.php/abstracts/

Viktória FEIGL, Emese VASZITA, Mónika MOLNÁR, Sebastian HEDWIG, Markus LENZ, Ildikó FEKETE-KERTÉSZ: ECOTOXICITY OF RESIDUES FROM THE LEACHING PROCESS OF BAUXITE RESIDUE FOR SCANDIUM PRODUCTION 

Ildikó FEKETE-KERTÉSZ, Emese VASZITA, Mónika MOLNÁR, Sebastian HEDWIG, Markus LENZ, Viktória FEIGL: ECOTOXICITY ASSESSMENT OF NANOFILTRATION PRODUCTS AS THE FIRST STEP OF SCANDIUM PRODUCTION FROM TITANIUM DIOXIDE PRODUCTION WASTE

Emese VASZITA, Ildikó FEKETE-KERTÉSZ, Mónika MOLNÁR, Dirk Hengevoss, Markus LENZ, Viktória FEIGL: QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE ECOTOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RESIDUES GENERATED IN SCANDIUM PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

The 8th progress meeting of the SCALE project was held online on the 2nd October 2020

Our group attended online the SCALE 8th progress meeting on the 2nd of October, 2020.

Viktoria Feigl presented  the summary of the results on the work conducted by the group within WP5 – Sustainability evaluation.

We reported on the results of ecotoxicity testing of chemicals used  and the wastes produced during SCALE processes and on the qualitative assessment of the environmental effects to support Life Cycle Assessment of the SCALE technologies.

We attended the 4th ELECTRA online progress meeting on 14-15 September, 2020.

The ELECTRA project 4th progress meeting was held online between 14-15 September 2020.

The work progress per WP was discussed in break-out sessions.

Mónika Molnár and  Ildikó Fekete Kertész presented  the progress and the results of the ecotoxicity testing of samples supplied by partners from field experiments.

We wish you a happy and successful New Year!

The Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Group of BME’s Department of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science from Budapest, Hungary, wishes  success and happiness in 2020 to all the colleagues, students, partners and collaborators!

The SCALE project is 3 years old

The Scale (Scandium Aluminium Europe) project became 3 years old on the 30th November, 2019.

The consortium has held its 3 year Project Meeting and the 3rd year Review in Brussels, on 16-17 October, 2019.

Dr. Viktória Feigl and Emese Vaszita attended the meeting on behalf of BME..

BME’s research group is involved in the project with the following main tasks: assessment of the environmental effects of the planned processes, chemicals, wastes and products, environmental risk management, Life Cycle Analysis and development of an environmental database  for scandium bearing wastes (included into the MOKKKA-ENFO database ).

Zsófia Berkl, our PhD student, received the Best Poster Award at EURO CD 2019

We are pleased to announce that our PhD student, Zsófia Berkl, received the Best Poster Award at the 6th European Conference on Cyclodextrins (EURO CD 2019) (https://eurocd2019.com/) organised in Santiago de Compostela, Spain between 2-4 October 2019 for the poster entitled:

The effect of cyclodextrins on the biofilm formation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa – Modulation of quorum sensing

Authors: Berkl, Zs., Molnár, M., Bordohányi Á., Fekete-Kertész, I., Németh, I., Fenyvesi, É., Szente L.

Congratulations Zsófi!